Cognitive Therapy Cognitive therapy is another therapy with which I was originally attracted to include in my personal model of therapy, because like client-centered therapy it seems to be what therapy should be about, dissecting the thoughts of clients and like behavior therapy the strategies used, such as decatastrophizing and decentering, are ones that make sense to me. Cognitive therapy was developed by Aaron T. Beck and aims to adjust information processing and initiate positive change in all systems by acting through the cognitive systems. Cognitive therapy views personality “as shaped by the interaction between innate disposition and environment” (Corsini & Wedding, 2014, p 239). Basic schemas or interpersonal strategies are developed in response to the …show more content…
To me different aspects of of these can work together in order to make a well-rounded personal model of therapy. It also seems to me that these are appropriate therapies which will be helpful to use with the population I most want to work with, children and adolescence. There were other psychotherapies, existential and contemplative, that I strongly considered including in my personal model of therapy but in the end I determined that they were not therapies that would work well with the population I am interested in working with. In my opinion, children and adolescents would likely not respond well to existential psychotherapy because they are not likely to be bothered about the “ultimate concerns” of death, freedom, isolation, and meaning. It is also my opinion that children and adolescents, would likely not respond well to contemplative psychotherapies because strategies like contemplation, meditation, and yoga would likely be very difficult or impossible for this population to participate. For these reasons, I chose to leave such psychotherapies out of my personal model of